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Woman named Jean no teeth old clothes owned six buildings ate at McDonald’s every day in a booth with friends left 90 million dollars to a man she’d...
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Ben Kills Mice
We have a rental house. Tenants went upstate for a week and they sent frequent and distraught emails tracking mouse droppings. “The mouse must have been n...
Einstein Was Right, or OTTO
I can’t imagine actually writing a poem about how Einstein was right (although I sort of am). More Up My Alley is this. Einstein had a partner/assistant n...
What They Said, Origins
The first time I remember ever writing down what somebody said, more or less, I wrote the words of my grammar school babysitter Eva Balco. I loved Eva Balco, an...
Ken’s Identical Twin Brother
Ken called this morning. There are some people who call and you’re just happy to hear them. I’ve written a whole Ken said series. (And Delores said....
Dear Esther
Some situations are not helped by explanations. Today I was going to write about the Mad Men ending (what an amazing show that is. And COCA COLA!) but then this...